The Top 100 Restaurants Near ess.
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Rank 1. ess.
Italian
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Rank 2. Higashiyama Muku
Japanese
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Rank 3. CRAFTALE
French
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Rank 4. TEN-MASA
Japanese, Tempura
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Rank 5. Tempura Motoyoshi
Tempura
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Rank 6. Ensui
Japanese
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Rank 7. abysse
French, Contemporary
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Rank 8. Saucer
French
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Rank 9. Monolith
French
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Rank 10. LATURE
French
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Rank 11. Katsuo Shokudo
Japanese
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Rank 12. Tempura Miyashiro
Tempura
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Rank 13. Keichitsu
French, French Contemporary
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Rank 14. l'élan
French
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Rank 15. Yakumo
Ramen
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Rank 16. Tamawarai
Soba
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Rank 17. Lien
French
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Rank 18. Arrocería Sal y Amor
Spanish
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Rank 19. BISTRO GLOUTON
French
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Rank 20. NéMo
French
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Rank 21. falò
Italian
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Rank 22. AUDACE
Italian
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Rank 23. Cristiano's
Portuguese
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Rank 24. Miyasaka
Japanese
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Rank 25. Kuhara
Japanese
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Rank 26. Madame Toki
French
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Rank 27. Den
Japanese
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #53 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best 2026 · #51 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 28. Prisma
Italian
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Rank 29. Night Market
South East Asian
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Rank 30. L’Effervescence
French, Contemporary
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Rank 31. Joël Robuchon
French, Contemporary
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Rank 32. Teuchi Asama
Ramen
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Rank 33. Shigeyuki
Japanese
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Rank 35. Le Cabaret
French
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Rank 36. Yd’or
French
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Rank 37. Daikanyama Issai Kassai
Izakaya
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Rank 38. Äta
French
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Rank 39. Kyoryori Aun
Japanese
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Rank 40. NÉN TOKYO
Vietnamese, Vietnamese Contemporary
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Rank 41. REI
Chinese
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Rank 42. Narisawa
Innovative
Narisawa is the kind of fine-dining room that makes a World's 50 Best ranking feel like an understatement. The chef's concept, satoyama cuisine, pulls from ancient Japanese farming and foraging traditions, then filters it through French and Chinese technique into something that feels wholly new. Guests are mostly couples and quiet power-players who know better than to check their phones. Omakase only, dress sharp, and clear your evening.
- 50 Best 2025 · #21 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2026 · #37 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 43. Jingumae Higuchi
Japanese
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Rank 44. Sushi Ikki
Sushi
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Rank 45. Hibino Chūka Shokudō
Chinese
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Rank 46. Myojaku
Japanese
A nine-seat counter tucked into a basement in Nishiazabu, where a 14-course French-Japanese omakase quietly earned a spot on Asia's 50 Best. The kitchen's obsession here is water, specifically a submarine spring variety that does the heavy lifting instead of the usual broths. The result feels genuinely restrained in the best way, and the room is so calm you'll actually taste things.
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Rank 47. Sazenka
Chinese
Sazenka is a 12-seat tasting menu restaurant inside a former diplomat's residence in Minami-Azabu, which tells you everything about the vibe before you've even sat down. The chef weaves Japanese sensibility through classical Chinese cuisine, and the tea pairing is genuinely the move here, not just an afterthought. The crowd is quiet, unhurried, and dressed like they made a reservation months ago, because they did.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #71 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best 2026 · #21 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 48. jeeten
Chinese
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Rank 49. Manoir
French
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Rank 50. Simplicité
French
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Rank 51. Chibachan Shibuya Store
Japanese
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Rank 52. Hakuun
Japanese
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Rank 53. mærge
French
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Rank 54. Shizuru
Japanese
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Rank 55. Recte
French
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Rank 56. Le Coq
French
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Rank 57. Sincère
French
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Rank 58. LA TABLE de Joël Robuchon
French, Contemporary
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Rank 59. Les deux
French
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Rank 60. Florilège
French
Chef Hiroyasu Kawate's tasting menu counter sits inside the ultra-modern Azabudai Hills complex and holds a spot on both Asia's and the World's 50 Best lists, which gives you a sense of the stakes. The open kitchen wraps around three sides of the room, so you're basically front-row for the whole show. The cooking is French at heart but genuinely Japanese in character, and leaning increasingly plant-forward in ways that actually surprise you.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #36 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best 2026 · #31 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 61. Chugokusai HINA
Chinese
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Rank 62. Piao-Xiang
Chinese
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Rank 63. Hirō Ishizaka
Sushi
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Rank 64. Jushu
Japanese
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Rank 65. Raisan
Japanese
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Rank 66. Noda
Contemporary
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Rank 67. Kushiwakamaru
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 68. Sushi Yuki
Sushi
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Rank 69. CREATERNA
Contemporary
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Rank 70. Kappo Muroi
Japanese
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Rank 71. BOTTEGA
Italian
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Rank 72. Azabu Kadowaki
Japanese
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Rank 73. Bistro YEBISU
French
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Rank 74. La façon Koga
French
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Rank 75. Shiomachi
Izakaya
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Rank 76. Benoit
French
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Rank 77. au deco
French
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Rank 78. HYÈNE
Contemporary
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Rank 79. Sassa
Japanese
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Rank 80. DEN KUSHI FLORI
Contemporary
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Rank 81. hakunei
Contemporary
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Rank 82. MAZ
Innovative
Virgilio Martinez, the chef behind Lima's legendary Central, runs this fine dining project in Tokyo where Peruvian and Japanese cuisines genuinely make sense together. The tasting menu takes you through Peru's ecosystems by altitude, which sounds pretentious but lands beautifully. It earned a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, so the room is full of people who planned this dinner months ago and are absolutely fine with that.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2026 · #28 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Tokyo
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Rank 83. Towa
Japanese
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Rank 84. EWIG
Austrian
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Rank 85. Crony
French, Contemporary
A cozy, two-story omakase spot in Higashiazabu where the cooking is quietly serious without being the least bit stuffy. The chef spent years in Paris, Copenhagen, and San Francisco, and you can taste all of it, applied to Japanese ingredients with real restraint. Everything on the plate earns its place, waste is genuinely minimized, and the kitchen is fully open, so you watch the whole thing unfold. It's on Asia's 50 Best list, and it deserves to be.
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Rank 86. Nishiazabu Taku
Sushi
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Rank 87. Sushi Masashi
Sushi
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Rank 88. Héritage by Kei Kobayashi
French, French Contemporary
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Rank 89. Waketokuyama
Japanese
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Rank 90. DAN
French
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Rank 91. Quintessence
French, Contemporary
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Rank 92. Kanda
Japanese
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Rank 93. bonélan
French
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Rank 94. Akasaka Kikunoi
Japanese
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Rank 96. çayca
Creative
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Rank 97. itsuka
Chinese
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Calling this a hotel feels like calling Disneyland a park. The New Otani is a full Tokyo neighborhood unto itself, with hundreds of rooms, a gorgeous Japanese garden you can actually wander through, and more than 35 restaurants on site. Between the spa, the tea ceremony, the kimono portraits, and yes, the onsite dentist, you could genuinely never leave. Old-school Tokyo luxury, still delivering.
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Rank 99. Seisoka
Japanese
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Rank 100. Kagurazaka Ishikawa
Japanese